• Lead and manage a small team of product designers, ensuring project prioritisation, team alignment, and timely execution of high-quality design work. • Mentor and inspire your team, fostering a culture of feedback, learning, and innovation through regular critiques, coaching, and skill development. • Manage project timelines, roadmaps, and design workflows, ensuring the team delivers high-quality work on schedule. • Maintain a hands-on approach, contributing directly to key design projects while balancing leadership responsibilities. • Partner with product managers, engineers, and executives to translate strategic goals into user-friendly design solutions. • Advocate for user-centred design by leveraging qualitative and quantitative research, usability testing, and behavioural insights to make informed design decisions. • Ensure design consistency and scalability through the use of design systems and atomic design principles. • Champion accessibility (a11y) and inclusive design, ensuring our products are usable by a diverse audience. • Collaborate with analytics and product teams to measure the impact of design and optimise experiences based on data.

Title: Product Designer 3 Location: United States Employee Type: Contract Remote: Yes Job Type: Digital Experience and Content Strategy Pay Range: $47 - $52 per hour Job Description: Job#: 3040654 Job Description: Apex Systems is a global IT services provider, and our staffing practice has an opening for a Product Designer to support a multinational technology corporation. Client: Multinational technology corporation Terms: 6‑month contract, potential extension up to 18 months Location: Fully remote (Any US time zone) Application Process: Apply through the platform where you found this posting. Job Description The purpose of this team is to design content experiences, including AI-generated and personalized content experiences for users.This role will contribute to AI-first news experiences, as well as the redesign of the current product to better appeal to a younger audience. Responsibilities - Design expressive, visually compelling features for users of our AI news and interest feed - Craft clear, engaging visual stories that communicate ideas effectively to our stakeholders - Partner with product managers, engineers, and content strategists to define and deliver product features - Work effectively within a complex design system to deliver cohesive, scalable designs - Apply a sharp eye for detail to ensure pixel-perfect execution and high-quality fit and finish across releases. - Collaborate with motion designers to integrate animation and micro-interactions that enhance usability and delight. - Contribute to design critiques and articulate rationale behind visual decisions to build alignment across stakeholders. - Stay ahead of emerging design trends, AI capabilities, and consumer content behaviors to inform innovative solutions. Requirements - 5–7 years of professional product design experience, with a portfolio showcasing excellence in visual design for consumer-facing digital products. - Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, visual communication, fine arts, product design, or a related field preferred, but equivalent practical experience is valued. - Strong background in visual design, typography, color, layout, and iconography. - Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite; familiarity with prototyping tools and workflows. - Experience collaborating in multidisciplinary teams and delivering independently from concept to production. - Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, balancing creativity with deadlines. Bonus Experience - Motion design skills (After Effects, Principle, Lottie, or similar) with an understanding of UX animation principles. - Experience with generative AI tools (e.g., Figma Make, MidJourney, DALL·E, Runway, or similar) Top 3 Must‑Haves - 5-7 years' experience with designing digital products using Figma (component systems, interaction flows, prototyping) - 1 year experience with Experience vibe coding interactive prototypes, including some familiarity with front-end technologies - 1 year experience with Experience designing for consumer-facing products, with an understanding of engagement and usability at scale *The ideal resume would contain a strong portfolio that is not boilerplate, demonstrates experimentation and tinkering, shows comfort with technical exploration or vibe coding, and presents beautiful, clean, easy-to-operate design work. Preferred Experience - Strong visual design craft (layout, typography, interaction design) with a portfolio demonstrating polished, shipped work - Experience designing and shipping consumer-facing digital products - Comfortable working in fast-paced, iterative product environments with cross-functional partners Other Details - A portfolio link is required in the resume - The interview process will include a portfolio review, followed by interviews with two or three interviewers. One or two interviews total. - Candidates must have a portfolio presentation prepared ahead of the interview. EEO Employer Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. 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Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click here for more details. By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Everforth Apex and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. 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• Design world-class user experiences for AI, enterprise software, and technology products. • Translate founder ideas into intuitive user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity interfaces. • Partner closely with Product Managers and Engineers throughout the product development lifecycle. • Conduct customer research, usability testing, and user interviews to validate product decisions. • Create and maintain scalable design systems and reusable UI components. • Shape product strategy by balancing user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility. • Design MVPs that enable founders to validate ideas quickly and reach product-market fit. • Help define product branding and visual identity for new ventures where appropriate. • Iterate rapidly based on customer feedback, analytics, and experimentation. • Support multiple ventures across the 16VC Studio portfolio.

• Own the end-to-end UX/UI design of mobile app features, from discovery to final implementation. • Create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs. Work closely with PMs and engineers to translate product requirements into clear mobile experiences. • Maintain and improve the mobile design system. Prepare developer-ready specs, review builds, QA implemented designs, and ensure consistency across iOS and Android. • Use user feedback, analytics, and usability testing to improve key app journeys.